CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Greco-Roman deity. The name used in Western academia during the Renaissance was Tellus Mater or Terra Mater, the Latin for “earth mother”, i.e. “Mother Earth”, goddess of the earth in ancient Roman religion and mythology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic.

Detailed explanation-3: -Earth is the only planet not named after a Roman god or goddess, but it is associated with the goddess Terra Mater (Gaea to the Greeks). In mythology, she was the first goddess on Earth and the mother of Uranus. The name Earth comes from Old English and Germanic.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why isn’t the earth named after a God? Most likely Earth was not named after a Greco-Roman god because it was not recognized as a planet in antiquity. The word planet means wanderer and the name Earth comes from the German word Erda and the Old English derivative of Erda, Ertha. In both languages it means ground.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gaea, also called Ge, Greek personification of the Earth as a goddess.